Archive for the ‘hacks’ Category

Coffee Makes It Possible for Me To Love

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

  Prior to my arrival in Seattle 12 years ago, I was not a coffee snob--but this place has a way of changing you. At first Seattle changes you in subtle ways. You no longer mind walking in the rain without an umbrella. When the 'Don't Walk' hand ...

Imified: Your Life To Go

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Imified is a fantastic service that can allow you to access any one of a number of services including Google Calendar, your blog, as well as an Imified notebook, reminders and to-dos. This post was written with it.

Hacking Amazon’s Image Tags

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html Amazon.com has a massive library of product images, putting out the same book cover (say) in a variety of sizes and formats. By experimentation, Nat Gertler found that they don't actually have all the sizes and formats stored. Instead, they have a system that generates each requested image. The details ...